Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

Buzz Aldrin

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Buzz Aldrin

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

Buzz Aldrin

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

Buzz Aldrin

I am definitely not rich.

Buzz Aldrin

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.

Buzz Aldrin

I failed music when I was a teenager.

Buzz Aldrin

Tang sucks.

Buzz Aldrin

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Buzz Aldrin

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

Buzz Aldrin

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

Buzz Aldrin

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

Buzz Aldrin

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

Buzz Aldrin

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

Buzz Aldrin

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

Buzz Aldrin

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

Buzz Aldrin

The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

Buzz Aldrin

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.

Buzz Aldrin

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

Buzz Aldrin